SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Governing Council has approved today, Thursday, the Catalog of services and benefits of the public system of social services of the Canary Islands, which determines the requirements and conditions of access to the services and benefits of the system and establishes the procedure for updating and revision.
In the press conference after the Governing Council, the Minister of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, highlighted that today they are “in luck” in the Ministry because “after three years of enormous work for The Catalog of Social Services and Benefits of the Autonomous Community finally sees the light of day for the first time”.
Noemí Santana explained that what the Ministry has done is respond to the mandate made by the 2019 Social Services Law and added that despite the fact that the previous Law, from 1987, also mandated the development of this catalogue, “it was never done”. , which shows that this government “does comply.”
Santana stressed that this document will be “enormously useful” not only for public administrations, but also for third-sector entities and the families themselves and users of the autonomous community’s social services. He also valued that this catalog is the result of a “highly participated” work, with joint work with all institutional levels, with Fecam and Fecai. In addition, more than 200 Social Work professionals have prepared it and have collaborated so that it could go ahead.
He also wanted to recall that the Catalog was unanimously approved by the General Council for Social Policies and has incorporated most of the more than 600 allegations submitted. And as for its financing, the counselor pointed out that this catalog represents an investment of 1,800 million euros in twelve years, which represents an annual economic increase by the autonomous community of more than 55 million, which will have to be incorporated the resources that the councils and city councils also increase.
CATALOG CONTENT.
The Catalog of services and benefits is defined as the instrument that determines the set of benefits and services of the public system of social services of the Canary Islands whose provision must be guaranteed by the competent public administrations, order and qualify the benefits of the social services system of public responsibility that whose purpose is to cover the social care needs of people.
In this way, the first Catalog of services and benefits of the Canary Islands regulates a wide range of services that include primary and community care services; services for childhood, adolescence, young people out of care or at risk of exclusion, and families; senior, immigration and volunteer services; dependency and disability services and prevention services against gender violence.
The objective of the Catalog is to codify the set of benefits that make up the Canary Islands Public Responsibility Social Services System, regardless of whether the ownership of the services or equipment is public or private, and which are intended to attend to personal needs. and social aspects of people and their families who reside or are in their territory, in order to ensure their full social inclusion or prevent them from falling into situations of social exclusion.
The Catalog defines and classifies the benefits of the social services system into service benefits, economic or technological, and includes those actions, technical interventions, programs, projects, economic and technological aid, resources and means of care intended to cover the needs of the users and contribute to their social inclusion.
The benefits of the social services system of public responsibility can be of service, economic or technological and will aim at the autonomy and well-being of people and their families, ensuring their right to live with dignity during all stages of their lives, and addressing situations of risk or social exclusion.
The services and benefits of the Catalog constitute a set of formal supports that can be made compatible with each other in order to offer comprehensive support and adapt the intervention to the needs, capacities and, where possible, preferences of each person, as well as to the characteristics of its context.
UPDATE AND REVISION.
Regarding the updating and revision of the Catalogue, the decree establishes that it will be updated on a regular and periodic basis, based on the analysis of the available information on the resources and social needs that are demanded, which will allow said instrument adequately and realistically addresses said social needs and demands, or those arising as a consequence of new services or obligations that may be provided for in sectoral legislation.
It also establishes that, every two years from its initial approval, the Catalog of services and benefits will be updated by the Government, including its structure, at the proposal of the Ministry with competence in matters of rights and social policies, in coordination with the other Canarian public administrations, through the Social Services Sectoral Conference, as well as with the participation of the General Council of Social Services.
